In my Dundas Dashboard and MS PerformancePoint Comparison article, I introduced you to Dundas Dashboard and explained how you can use it to rapidly assemble compelling performance dashboards. With Dundas […]
Got bit by an unfortunate bug which has been around for four years since it got reported on connect.microsoft.com with Analysis Services OLAP drillthrough. It caused me almost a day […]
I was called upon to troubleshoot an issue with creating an aggregation design for an existing cube. The Design Aggregation Wizard would refuse to design aggregations with the following cryptic […]
Now that the age of in-memory databases has dawned on us, I’ve been experimenting with different aspects of VertiPaq and I find its technology fascinating. It’s safe to say that […]
Now that a snow blizzard has paralyzed Atlanta for a week, what a better way to start the new year than sharing a PowerPivot success story. A bank institution has […]
A recommended practice for implementing time calculations in PowerPivot is to have a Data table with a datetime column. Kasper de Jonge explains in more details in this blog. This […]
Report actions are an Analysis Services extensibility mechanism that lets end users run a Reporting Services report as they browse the cube. A customer reported that they have trouble setting […]
Digital dashboards, also known as enterprise dashboards or executive dashboards, are rapidly rising in popularity as the presentation layer for business intelligence. The chances are that you’ve been asked to […]
Microsoft launched SQL Server 11 (Denali) pre-released forums and is eagerly awaiting your feedback. Judging by the number of BI-related forums, one can easily see that BI will be a […]
I dare to predict that in a few years after SQL 11 ships, there will be two kinds of BI professionals – those who know the Business Intelligence Semantic Model […]
